Poll : The Bag and YouI'm of the opinion that no bag day will have a positive impact on the well being of team, its students and mentors.
I'm also of the opinion that the changes to bag day will have very little impact...

"The level playing field" in FIRSTSo we used to try to get more competitive alliances at TRI (our off-season) and the final system we had worked but no way would I want it for official events.
The biggest problem with locking the...

FIRST Choice - What are you getting?I prioritize knowing my options for what I can prioritize. ;)
This is based off last year's information, which may be different this year.
My personal shopping list tends to look like this:
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1701 Robocubs T-Shirt Cannon CADHere are the CAD files for our off season project T-Shirt Cannon that includes a butterfly drive train that we've developed over the past few months.
Also check out robocubs.com for all of our...

VR Field Information?just following up in this thread with the link in case anyone missed it: https://www.firstinspires.or g/robotics/frc/playing-field
Looks like google cardboard will be in the KOP. Also viewable with...

AM 57 Sport Gearboxes - EncoderYea nice encoder. I only say that because of the principle of measuring the motor and not the output of the gearbox, hence my yuck. It would certainly serve 95% of our purposes. Depending on our...

How to Paint AluminumI personally believe that sending your parts to a professional powder-coating service is the best, but with sanding and some isopropyl alcohol or acetone will get a good finish. I like Dupli-Color or...

Gradle- Building vision code on Pi 3Actually, I watched your series last week. Very well done. It helped me understand some of what was going on and get the FRC example code working.
I may still give your version a try (only cost me...

Team 973 Signing OffNot wanting team members to blow their brains out, I gave Autodesk Fusion 360 a shot after discovering Lars Christensen's GREAT video tutorial collection posted on his Youtube channel.
I later had a...

Welding polycord belts with a hot plate.Yeah as you say with round belt it is not actually that necessary. For those wanting to do some type of flat belt the actual melting of the belt is the same process but having some type of jig can be...